South Africa and Governance
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Promoting social investment in South Africa
- M. Samson; I. van Niekerk; N. Bovula / Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 1999
- This paper presents a macroeconomic framework underlying many policy proposals, by churches, labour, and non-governmental organisations. The core of the proposal addresses a “virtuous circle” of growth arising out of social ...
- Consequences of South African urbanisation
- J. Beall; O. Crankshaw; S. Parnell / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002
- The main findings from this study sheds new light on the dynamics of state control over African urbanisation in Johannesburg and its consequences for social differentiation. It reveals that , in spite of state control to limit ...
- Overview of South Africa’s health care system
- D. Johnson / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2001
- From the early 1960s due to its apartheid policies, South Africa became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. With the collapse of the Rand in 1989, repeal of the apartheid laws started, culminating in the free elections o...
- AIDS and NGOs in South Africa
- R. Manning / Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2002
- This report is the result of research into the current impact of HIV/AIDS on NGOs and CBOs in KwaZulu-Natal, the worst-affected province of South Africa. A survey of organisations found that most were aware that they eventually would ...
- Civil society as enabling peaceful transitions to democracy in South Africa
- P. Camay ; A. J. Gordon / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The relatively peaceful transition to a fully democratic society in South Africa has been a surprise to both internal and external observers and commentators in light of the country's history of systematic violation of human, social, ...
- The campaign against redistribution in South Africa
- P. Camay; A. J. Gordon / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- Local government has been the focus of key governance strategies both in the apartheid period and in the post-apartheid transformation to democracy in South Africa. In 1996, the newly-elected, ANC-controlled Greater Johannesburg Trans...
- What is the digital divide and how can it be addressed?
- Bridges.org, 2002
- There are a variety of definitions of the digital divide and a range of opinions on the key factors affecting it. The report begins by looking at trends in ICT uses and argues that both national and international digital divides are g...
- How can the potential contributions of ICTs to democracy in the South best be harnessed?
- S. Fleming / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2002
- This paper explores some of the potential and current reality of using ICTs to strengthen democracy development in South Africa. Focus is on a project of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa that has sought to make use of ICTs ...
- Results of a multi-national survey into e-governance initiatives
- H. Alamango; J. Zammit; E. Scicluna / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2002
- The authors define the term Governance as the process by which society steers itself. In this process, the interactions among the State, Private Enterprise and Civil Society are being increasingly conditioned and modified through the ...
- Land redistribution in South Africa after Apartheid
- P. Camay; A.J. Gordon / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- This case study deals with the South African government policies for restitution and redistribution of land to people in rural areas who were deprived of it due to racially discriminatory laws and practice. Its main focus is on how th...
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